This project is aimed at bringing to life the history of St. Louis and the region through the unique lens of public policy. The purpose of this project is to provide researchers, students, and the general public with a greater understanding of our region’s history, development and missed opportunities. I cannot be held responsible if this project depresses you–my hope would be that it instead inspires you to create/shape better, more inclusive and empathetic public policy. These documents...
Topic: st. louis county, digiproject
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 9/23/1921
Topics: black newspapers, Republican Party Ticket, Lincoln Party, Birth of A Nation, English Labor Party,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 7/1/1921
Topics: black newspapers, mob violence, race war, Klu Klux Klan, urban league, naacp, ymca, ywca,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 12/23/1921
Topics: black newspaper, Christmas Edition, Second World Colored Congress, B.F. Bowles, YMCA, YWCA, Pine...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 8/21/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 7/6/1917 East St. Louis Race Riot issue (Pt1)
Topics: race riot, naacp, Tom Turpin, chicago, Ferdenand L. Barnett, refugees, William H. Hoffman, east st....
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 9/16/1921 Later in paper issue is a moderately sized article regarding the status of "negro life in St. Louis city"
Topics: black newspaper, Garvey Movement, Tuskegee Institute, Pan African Conference, Chicago News, John...
The following is a small booklet published by Landmarks on the history, and future plans for redeveloping Laclede's Landing. This book was digitized as part of an on-going project undertaken by the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis. You can find this book and many similar items relating to the city of St. Louis and its surrounding reaches at our office in the Thomas Jefferson Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 12/25/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Volume 2 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 6/16/1916 Needs some cleanup/brightness/contrast/blur
Topics: W. T. Scott, ymca, ywca, Democratic Convention, william jennings bryan, Pythian Monitor, St. Louis...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 6/22/1917
Topics: ww1, great war, negro soldiers, colored soldiers, war department, ymca, ywca, poro college,...
From the City Data Collection Addenda at the State Historical Society of Missouri- St. Louis
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, urban renewal, st. louis
This work, published in part by the Landmarks Association in 1969, was found in the St. Louis Local History Collection at the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, francis parkman, Tennessee williams
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 11/18/1921
Topics: black newspaper, Negro on Democratic Ticket, Jim Crowe, Colored War Veterans, Lily Whitism,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 3/19/1920
Topics: black newspaper, Election, Registration Day, Great Migration, Civil Liberties League, East St....
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 1/30/1920
Topics: black newspaper, naacp, ymca, ywca, urban league, Citizens League, mass meeting, Lincoln League,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 6/15/1917 Interesting issue, highlights outrage in African American community over being forced into Army by draft, whereas whites were incorporated by volunteerism.
Topics: segregation, ww1, fort des moines, negro soldiers, Tuskegee institute, negro business league,...
Volume 1 No. 6
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 5/25/1917
Topics: race riot, segregation, jim crow, southern, lynch mob, mob law, ymca, ywca, poro college, wheatley...
Provided courtesy of the State Historical Society of Missouri, as part of the new project to digitize and make public a cooperative--indexed St. Louis Urban Planning & Civil Rights archive 1915-2015
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, urban planning, borough
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/8/1921 Some pages are difficult to read, I have done my best to highlight/shade/brighten areas.
Topics: mayor kiel, reelection, peonage, georgia slavery, equal rights bill, George E. Stevens, Walthall...
Volume 6 Number 3
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 7/24/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Focus Midwest Volume 7 No. 45-48 Note two issues are missing due to poor quality of scan/scanning material. If you absolutely must get hold of these issues contact me at openarchivestl@gmail.com and we can work out an arrangement.
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 2 Number 6
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/15/1921
Topics: black newspaper, segregation, lynching, klu klux klan, daughters of the confederacy, president...
Volume 6 Number 4
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/21/1921
Topics: black newspaper, Klu Klux Klan, New York Mayoral Declaration, Knights of Pythian, Victor Miller,...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 11/13/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/2/1920
Topics: black newspaper, lily white party, Dr. L. K. Williams, Mass meeting, ywca campaign, ymca campaign,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 9/8/1916
Topics: northern migration, negro laborers, Commonwealth Mercantile, coliseum, negro business league, ymca,...
Volume 5 Number 4
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
A short but informative history of the city of Creve Coeur & surrounding cities, published in 1968 by he Citizens' Historical Committee.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, History, St. Louis County
Volume 1 No. 2
Topics: Klotzer, FOCUS Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated January 1, 1965
Topics: black newspaper, st louis argus
Focus Midwest Volume 15 Number 93
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 12/16/1921
Topics: black newspaper, negro league baseball, ymca, ywca, pine street branch, wheatley branch, Carnegie...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 10/30/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 12/24/1915
Topics: ymca fundraising campaign, ymca, ywca, george l. vaughn, homer g. phillips, segregation,...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, issue dated 8/28/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Volume 4 Numbers 3 and 4
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 9 Number 1
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/18/1917
Topics: ywca, ymca, poro college, fundraising, Birth of a Nation, Race baiting, anti-movies bill, Friedman...
Focus Midwest Volume 8 Number 53, St. Louis
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
The following is a small booklet published as part of Mayor Raymond Tucker's primary campaign against Alfonso Cervantes in 1964-65. The book outlines Tucker's accomplishments in terms of physical, economic and social change brought to the city of St. Louis between 1952 and 1965. This item was drawn from the Ernest Calloway Papers located at the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis, and is part of an on-going digitization effort.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, St. louis, Raymond Tucker, Alfonso Cervantes
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 6/19/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Volume 2 No. 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 8/31/1917
Topics: colored soldiers, world war 1, military draft, Leroy Bundy, segregation, pythian hall, Roscoe...
From the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis. St. Louis County Municipalities Collection.
Topics: St. louis county, digiproject
Volume 2 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, FOCUS Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 12/11/1925
Topic: black newspaper
"The Other Mayor Lee," article in Focus Midwest 1967. Written by John Kramer. Discusses the proposed plan to merge the communities of Berkeley and Ferguson Missouri, two communities that have played an ample role in both historical and current St. Louis events. Key to the story however, is that the planned merger fails to make mention of the all black community of Kinloch which is geographically located between both Berkeley and Ferguson. It is implied that were the merger to take...
Topics: Kinloch, Ferguson, St. Louis
Volume 3 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
This oral history comes from the Oral History Collection (makes sense). The interview conducted by Chris Chrenshaw, is of the former (I think) Pastor/Friar at Saints Mary and Joseph Catholic Church in Carondelet Robert Sydlowski. The interview was conducted on November 15th, 1993. The discussion touches on many topics including life in St. Louis growing up, catholic life in St. Louis and baseball.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, Oral History, Catholic
Volume 10 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 10 Number 3
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 14 Number 90
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Focus Midwest, Volume 9 Number 61
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 6/25/1965. Part II in the Melvin Cravens Saga
Topic: St. Louis
Volume 9 Number 3
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 6/23/1916
Topics: madame c.j. walker, simmons school, Bishop Phillips, segregation, lynchings, prejudice,...
The St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 3/26/1915
Topics: charles turpin, Madame Lyda Slaughter Wilson, Payton Foster, Dreamland, Helen Eugenia Hagan,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 9/28/1917
Topics: military draft, discrimination, commonwealth fellowship club, equal rights league, milton fields,...
Volume 1 No. 3
Topics: Klotzer, FOCUS Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 8/15/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/28/1921 Interesting Cover Page story discussing comments made by President Harding regarding racial equality, limits his words to "political equality"
Topics: black newspapers, President Harding, tarred and feathered, klu klux klan, Roosevelt, Colored...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 12/29/1917
Topics: minnie williams, murder, ymca, ywca, woodmen, William A. Quayle, J.E. Mitchell, Annie Malone, Poro...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/14/1916
Topics: race loyalty, buy negro only, Scullin Steel, National Negro Press Association, City Federation of...
Volume 3 Number 5
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 7/3/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Volume 4 Numbers 1 and 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 8 No. 51- Poverty
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
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Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 9/29/1922
Topic: black newspapers
